Improvement in hames



E. D. COLLINS.

HAMES.

Patented Aug.1.1876.-

N-FEIERS, PHOTO LITHDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, I)v C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICEG ELI D. COLLINS, OF GLAREMONT, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAMES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,462, dated August 1, 1876; application filed March 25, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELI D. COLLINS, of Olareinont, county of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire, have invented a Winged Thimble for a Bolt or Staple Hame to a Harness, of

which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to protect the tug-leather attached to the bolt or staple of the hanie of a harness so that the friction and wear shall come directly upon the thimble and bolt or staple, and not upon the leather.

The thimble is illustrated more in detail in the plan view, Fig. A, and is an iron tube with a wing so constructed as to slip on over the bolt or staple of the hame 01' the harness,

ELI D. COLLINS. Witnesses:

ALBERT H. DANFORTH, E. B. HAYWOOD. 

